VICTORIA

(Miguel de San Román, d. 1863, President from 1862), acknowledging his letter of the 29th October in which You announce to Us that You had been called to the Presidency... by the free suffrages of Your fellow citizens, congratulating him upon this signal mark of the Esteem and Confidence of Your Countrymen and assuring him that it is Our earnest desire to strengthen... the Relations of Friendship happily subsisting between Great Britain and the Republic, and recommending him to the Protection of the Almighty, signed also Russell (Lord John, 1792-1878, from 1861 1st Earl) as Foreign Secretary, 2 sides folio black edged and conjugate blank, Windsor Castle, 20th December